Econ major here: Micro is about individual firms. How the firm operates in a given market. Macro is about the aggregate market. Stuff like GDP, national output/production, taxes, policy, etc.

For general knowledge, macro is MUCH MORE useful. No self-respecting citizen can understand daily life without macro knowledge.

Intermediate macro is, like previously mentioned, an applied calculus course. Intermediate macro is basically a more in-depth approach to macro. Stuff like IS LM curves that show how it all fits together.

Take macro. intro macro and micro are both super easy. Take the one that will actually benefit you.

Micro is harder in my opinion. Macro should be somewhat basic knowledge to a college student. Micro on the other hand gets into specifics of the economy that you probably have never heard before in your life unless you read the WSJ everyday.

Macro was so fun and interesting, and I was like "hmmm, maybe I'll change my major to econ!"

and then I took micro and I was like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. NO.

lol, you have no idea. intro micro is like learning the abc's compared to the harder courses. good choice on not going econ if you didn't like micro. Most of the upper level courses are either econometrics (regression stats stuff) courses or advanced micro courses.

My major requires me to take a micro or macro economics class, and was wondering which one was considered easier. Thanks!

Both classes are good.

In Micro you'll learn how to create models to evaluate business decisions a company makes. It's heavier in math. It's probably the most valuable class I've ever taken in understanding how business works and developing critical analysis and quantitative reasoning skills in general.

In Macro you learn how national economies work on a large scale and how economies react at an aggregate level to taxes, interest rate changes, trade imbalance, etc. You'll look smart at election time.

I've always preferred macro compared to micro. It's a bit easier and you could relate it to today's economies. The thing with taking econ classes is that make sure that you understand the material or else you're stuck. Having a prof that teaches the material well never hurts.